Back when I used to watch TV with any regularity (back before children, etc) one of my favorite shows was the morning financial report (I think that’s what it was called) on CNN with Deborah Marchini and Stuart Varney. I think it stopped airing at least ten years ago, but I still miss it.
One of the reasons that I used to enjoy it because I thought that Deborah was hot. Not so much her looks (which were just fine) but her voice and her playful inflection. I was pretty sure that female viewers would feel the same way about Stuart. And maybe there was a little something going on between them? They seemed to be having an awfully good time.
I also really enjoy listening to Laura Carlo on WCRB (Boston’s classical musical station, now also serving Cape Cod and the Islands on …) and Bob Pleasants on WUMB (folk music radio) because their voices have such amazing character.
I suspect that Laura Carlo could seduce me in thirty seconds over the phone. It’s like an acoustic pheromone or some such phenomenon. There’s never anything overtly sexy or flirty in her voice — it’s purely professional — but I know that if she ever ended her introduction of a piece with something like “This is really long one, and it gets so lonely here in the station… first man here can have me for thirty minutes” there would be a thousand men reaching for their car keys before the conductor raised his baton.
And there’s something so calming and peaceful about Bob Pleasants voice that I’m amazed it’s available without a prescription.
I made the terrible mistake of going to their stations web sites to make sure that I’d spelled their names correctly and now I know what they actually look like (or their press kit photos, anyway). I’d always imagined Laura to look more like Deborah Marchini, but with darker hair. And Bob Pleasants I imagined like Stuart Varney, but with a pony tail and three-days growth of beard. I was wrong. Dang.
So, who are your favorite on-air personalities, and what do you imagine about them?
Anyone who appears in People Magazine or other similar publications is ineligible; you already “know” too much about them. This is about what’s going on in your head, not about what you read in Tiger Beat or Vogue
